The politics of conciliation
pp. 116-132
in: , Style, politics and the future of philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1989Abstract
Forecasting the future of anything whatever is heady business — all the more so, if the subject in question is philosophy. If we need reminding of that, we might just consider for a moment how the future of philosophy looked to Hegel in 1806, to Marx and Feuerbach in the early 1840s, to Russell and Moore at the turn of the century or to Ebner and Jaspers just after World War One. Perhaps the best way to approach this difficult subject is to consider the attitudes of some prominent thinkers to the future generally.